Saturday, October 10, 2009

I saw the following story yesterday and I figured that it was a perfect time to write about it as a follow up to my post about that gun toting soccer mom.

Ever wonder why we have a society where we are "slaves" to the gun? I will tell you why: It's because we have people in a political party in this country who would be far better suited to try and govern with their form of political ideology from a Third World country. Hey, I grew up in one. I know what it's like for a political party to try and take power by violent means and with the help of the gun. Sure, here in A-merry-ca we like to tell ourselves that we are more "civilized" than that, because there is not the rampant poverty you would find in a Third World country. Here, we don't need political power in order to eat and have a roof over our heads. Here, we simply need the gun because our Constitution says that we have the right to have it. And, god forbid, our government should ever get out of line, we would need those very guns to protect us from the tyrants we put in power. Here in A-merry-ca, the gun is a powerful political symbol. We don't use it to kill our political opponents yet, but give it time. The gun lobby and their whores are more powerful than damn near every other lobby group in Washington. And they have a bottomless pit of money to keep sending more whores to Washington.

One such whore wannabe is a man by the name of Robert Lowry. This scumbag actually went to a republican event and as a part of the festivities there took target practice at a target with his opponents initials (DWS) on it. A woman, who by the way, happens to be battling breast cancer. Real classy folks those repubs.

"A South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target with the initials of the Democratic congresswoman he is trying to unseat.Candidate Robert Lowry made a brief statement to a local newspaper but refused to speak further Friday about the incident, which happened Tuesday during a weekly GOP meeting held at a gun range.

Organizer Ed Napolitano defended the gathering, as well as the use of targets that appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves."

"GOP meeting" at a "gun range"? WTF? I guess when you have nothing to offer in terms of policy you just go and brush up on your shooting skills. After all, you never know when you might have to take an election by force. I also like the little racist xenophobic touch in there. It's always nice to put "traditional Arab head scarves" on your targets. I am sure that plays well in GOP circles.

"That's our right," said Napolitano, president of the Southeast Broward Republican Club. "If we want to shoot at targets that look like that, we're going to go ahead and do that."

I am sure you are. Today rifle range targets, tomorrow real live opponents. Just like we do sometimes down in Jamaica .

Field, you really need to come to the A-T-L sometimes... there's a nice little Gun Store where you can rent a REAL Assault Rifle and shoot at a target of Obama, I mean OSAMA, Khadaffi, heck, anyone you want... One old geezer emptys a full 32 clip into a Matt Damon poster...little weird if you ask me... And whens "Dont ask Dont smell" gettin repealed? You know the Homos are gettin their panties all in a bunch. Oh thats for NEXT years Nobel Prize, cool.

The Republicans may be the minority party, but they're becoming masters of the publicity stunt, commanding national media attention even from the nation's most unknown and unimportant Congressional districts.

And they're not going to stop. If one guy got news by calling Obama a liar on the floor of the House, and now this guy gets national attention by taking target practice at his opponent, well you tell me what the next stunt is going to be?

"Organizer Ed Napolitano defended the gathering, as well as the use of targets that appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves. That's our right, If we want to shoot at targets that look like that, we're going to go ahead and do that."

Why is it that I (and others) don't hear about this sort of outrage other than here? Never mind, I know why. Good ol MSM news drops the ball as usual. I'll bet this Napolitano guy is within his rights, but it stinks. Bad. Real bad.

Rippa @12:06, I'm with what you say often, but I can't go with your "just sayin" that gun control is wrong because gun control was originally "to protect klansmen". Seems to me that the motivation is opposite now. As far as I'm concerned, gun control efforts are to protect innocent people from gun lovers with bad intent (Ref. Napalitano and "Arab head scarves")

The NRA has been pushing through some pretty crazy laws in state legislatures lately -- laws that even gun owners object to like guns in bars. I don't understand what the overarching goal is for the NRA right now. They have to have one but it's neither transparent nor easily discerned. I get the feeling it's a long, tedious, and roundabout plan that leads to insulating manufacturers from liability because they really don't care about owners despite the rhetoric.

As to these GOPers... It's sad but it used to be that gun owners would be the first to object to that kind of irresponsible and sick behavior. The unholy pairing of the GOP with the NRA has turned from 2nd Amend concerns to an absolute worship of guns. They've even changed the culture of guns in this country from a rather blase attitude (gun owners have a gun for hunting or in the home for protection and that's that) to rabid gun idolatry. And they've produced absolutely insane measures. Take the gun show loophole: it's only there to sell to those who can't pass a background check. They're fighting for the right to sell to criminals and the tiny percentage of people who are classified by their state's as mentally unstable. IOW, they're fighting to sell to criminals. Who can be OK with that?!

The Republican party is the party of hatemongers and warmongers. They are losing it behind our President being a black man. The White House to them has always been their own sacred domain. Being under the leadership of a black man eats at the very heart of their delusional superiority myth and destroys the lies that have been planted around the world that blacks are inferior.

They call themselves getting ready for the civil race war and to take over the government. The militas, the white supremacist, neo-nazi, conservative citizens council. The main reason they're harping and focusing on black on black violence is not because they care, because they don't. It's because they want to be able to only have to deal with and fight elderly people, women, and children if and when they start their mess because that would be easier. Our black youth scare them because in a war the young are always the warriors. I read the white man's bible before and some other stuff that they passed among themselves and in it a neo-nazi leader said that young black men train daily in warfare by practicing daily on each other. I hope you can read between the lines what they meant by that.

matw:

What rippa said is part of Americans history after post slavery and is real. He said it as a joke but sad to say it has a ring of truth in it.

They think Arab-bashing is going to win them Jewish votes in this Florida district, except that Jews are smart enough to realize that many NRA types are good old boys that wouldn't mind taking a shot at yarmulke either.

As for the NRA, Charlton Heston might have played Moses in the movies but he is no Moses. He is a bigoted hatemonger. Michael Moore had him pegged right in his documentary Columbine. Heston's ulterior motive for having a gun is not for protection, he lives in a secure mansion.

k granny, thanks."What rippa said is part of Americans history after post slavery and is real." I understand, and appreciate it, but It doesn't change the fact that we need to address a problem here and now.

@mattw -- Thanks for that link. I read a news piece on that but didn't know they had a site like that up. I really don't see how the NRA and GOP can act like it's too much to clamp down on criminal access to guns. But if anyone, democrat or republican, dares bring it up they're demonized and targeted by the NRA and the NRA doesn't fool around. Ask Bill Clinton or any number of smaller name pols who've been delivered a world of hurt by the gun lobby and often removed from office.

I watching HGTV the other night, and the program "If Walls Could Talk" was on and this couple had moved into a house which they had renovated and discovered a bomb shelter in their backyard. They gave a tour of it.

First thing came to my mind while watching it, we might all need one of those ourselves the way these crazy rightwing folks is acting. All of them have took a sudden interest in military training and filling up the target ranges for shooting practice.

Hmmm...I think I'll tell my son on his next visit to the target range, take me with him. (wink)

I had a thought some months ago when my partner and some of his friends decided to get gun carry permits - encourage all blacks and browns to go take the class and get your conceal carry permit then publish the numbers or percentages of them with conseal carry license. I bet if the number hit just 10% of a given state, alot of these gun righters will suddenly be for gun control.

None of the behavior by these GOP wing nut cases come as a shock,but what do shock me is the continued lack of organize respone to these folks.The only politican I seen lately who has enough balls to confront these jack-o-laterns is Congreman Allan Grayson of Florida.Where are the black and brown member of congress,oh I forgot they are still celabrating 40 years of being "house negros"!Party Over here!

Granny, Hey, they've got Medicine for Alzheimers, works great, was tested at Tuskeegee and everything, ask your Doctor about it... You probably saw the commercials for it, especially on HGTV, but thats why they call it Alz-heimers... And might wanta pass on that trip to the Gun Range with your sun... Google Marvin Gaye sometime...

Field,this isn't my blog and I'm certainly not trying to tell you how to run it. But I FEEL that the numerous trolls who cowardly post under "anonymous" shouldn't be allowed into ANY discussion if they haven't got the cajones to use a real ID.

It's confusing to follow their threads,and to know whom you're responding,even with their time stamps.Mostly,I skip past them.

Maybe if that little nergo that was killed in rwanda opps imean Chicago had a gun and belonged to the NRA he would have been able to defend himself instead of being a dead negro."

No thanks, the NRA has done enough damage to our cities and our children. But thanks for the suggestion. Dope!

Field,this isn't my blog and I'm certainly not trying to tell you how to run it. But I FEEL that the numerous trolls who cowardly post under "anonymous" shouldn't be allowed into ANY discussion if they haven't got the cajones to use a real ID."

In case you missed it, The USA is the richest third world country. We have an underclass that is poorly housed, fed, educated, and crap health care.

Back to that PBS War on Poverty series (I have the tape), there was head start and other programs to try and remedy these. Of course, the race card was pulled (even though a significant amount of recipients were not-black).

Add in that Crime, gun control, and abortion are trotted out as wedge issues to prevent anything from getting done.

Not sure what the erosion in gun laws is all about, but I fear it bodes ill.

I'd hate for the pres to be a martyr like the last young idealistic pres (JFK) to create a similar push to the war on poverty.

I never thought I'd see the day, a bigot like you with soul, but hey, you've made me rethink that. Frank why don't you just go on and admit it, your a black man in a white man's body. Confession is good for the soul.

i am so sick of gutless democrats. what is a majority if u cannot use it. the denizens of planet wingnuttia are manipulating the media and having a field day. the O man seems to be a side show and not even the main attraction. what in the world is going on?

About 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, by far the largest racial or ethnic group—by comparison, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college.

Don't worry be happy! O-man will save us all! Got to make you proud to be a black man? hummm

At midyear 2008, there were 4,777 black male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents being held in state or federal prison and local jails, compared to 1,760 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents and 727 white male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.

hey granny if you could keep your little warriors from being sent off to prison they may be a little more effective?

Since slavery ended Blacks have always been those targeted for prison even those who were innocent. If they weren't letting white men get away with the crimes they commit, it would be just as many of them in prison. So, if I were you I wouldn't gloat because whites are no better for that fact no other color is better. It's good and bad in all.

Nah, if justice was really color blind it wouldn't be so many black men in prison. And if MSM wasn't trying to keep a negative focus on blacks only, your little smug tune would change.

They think Arab-bashing is going to win them Jewish votes in this Florida district

Black democrats have resorted to Jew-bashing in a very similar manner. See Nikki Tinker and Cynthea McKinnley for two (of many) prime examples. Arab bashing among the right is no more prominent than Jew and Asian bashing among lazy black community leaders who showboat for their community, get rich off of it, then point their finger at Jews, Asians, Whites because it is the habit of lazy black politiciansmmunity leaders to try and win over black support by appealing to the same scapegoating instinct in blacks that made many whites support the KKK

I'm not blaming anyone because there is plenty of blame to go around. Nor have I ever denied the problems in black communities. However, it is not black males as group that is the problem, it is SOME of them. Just like it is SOME of them in other groups. Where I have a problem at is that whenever it is a black person that commits a crime, it seems that they tend to label ALL BLACK MEN as criminals or make it seem like there is NOT ONE decent or good BLACK man on this planet. Their all corrupt and that's not true and that's where I'm coming from.

Thanks, Granny. Some in this society are focused on filling the prisons with men of color, all while actively engaged in being blind to the damage that just a few white men have done to the entire society, and these men occupied the WH, some are/were in Congress, and definitely were/are on Wall Street, still wreaking havoc on the American financial system. Some posting here who are so eager to point out the problem in African American communites will never admit that these men should be behind bars, beginning with the GW Bush cabal of evil. I fully acknowledge that we have many African American males in the prison system, a fact that I regret, and a fact that I spent 33 years in public school classrooms trying to prevent, and I did have some success in steering some of these young men toward college, the military, or some other form of legitimate, gainful employment. There are many of us in communities across America who are working to change this situation. I had young white men I taught end up with 35 & 40 year sentences for setting fire to churches. I had one former student, also white, who broke into a family's home and murdered the entire family. He's on death row. The point is that I don't like having any of our youth end up in prison. None of them. I have years of experience dealing with teens and, I'm loathe to point fingers at anyone and draw conclusions about an entire group of people based only on what I can google or what I see on teevee or hear on the radio. I think that people who have to do this in order to make themselves look superior expose their weak underbellies for close inspection each time they do it. They expose themselves as being unknowledgable, spiteful, petty, immature, and more than willing to buy into the stereotypes being constantly promoted by some members of this society. Regarding the issue of guns, republicans, and the NRA, all I have to say is that a second group of gun owners exists that is never mentioned by the republicans or NRA: the millions of armed citizens who feel no need to align themselves with these groups. The major difference between the first and second groups is that the first one believes in using guns to promote violence against their fellow citizens and the government and to intimidate others, and the second group believes in using them only when necessary, mainly to protect their homes, themselves, and their family members.

all i'm saying is that at some point in our lives we have to start to take some personal resposiblity.

as long as the black community as a majority does not hold these criminals accountable it will never change!

i've heard/read (even on this blog) people of color literally blame everyone under the sun for these criminals being placed where they need to be.

please explain to me why black men (the ones that are doing these things) not held accountable? they leave thier families in droves and yet the counrty goes on! My God do you not see how much of the problem could be averted just simply by having these men be a Father to thier kids.

but yet others are blamed, the police, the teachers, the criminal justice system and even churchs in some cases.

Why not a Campaign to stop this madness, like the AIDS campaign over on the side bar. A Campaign to hold black men accountable! Stop selling drugs, stop the gang violence, stop vulgarity in the hip hop culture and stop the violence perpetrated against black females! Field could start it here, we could all be a part of it. There are plenty of black men on this very blog that would be positive examples of black men. Are you with me Granny or am I just wasting my time dreaming of a day when black men are NOT the majority in the prison system?

"Where are the black and brown member of congress,oh I forgot they are still celabrating 40 years of being "house negros"!Party Over here!"

Oh you sorry ass Tom.

If the CBC had made a public statement about the gun-toting 'necks you would have been the first one whining "victimhood" and wondering why they weren't as concerned about "Pookie and Ray Ray" in the hood.

Hey, I am not disputing what you said,I am down with holding them accountable and stopping it. But now, let's, also, hold those Corporate Executives, some of the crooked politicians, and some of those crooked CIA, and law enforcement folks who are importing and smuggling drugs in our neighborhoods accountable too.

Think about this none of our black youth own or have the means or connections to import and smuggle those large quantities of drugs or guns in our country and into our neighborhoods. Until they get the guts to go after the big cheeses in the whole drug and gun business, it is like the young man on that program series, "The Wire" said, the game is rigged. Only those at the bottom of the totem pole are paying the price for it, while the big cheeses go free.

All you crazy bubba's in doc martins,go ahead & get your guns & rations & prepare for your little culling of non whites. if you kill barak it will be on & your race war will be in full swing.since most of your ranks are pussy your #'s will be few.You might kill a few tyrones & pookies before a multi cultral task force does the same to you.its all talk these crakkkas will continue to dream but they remember ruby ridge.the goverment cant wait for you cousin cooters to set it so they can cease all your weapons then what caveman? sticks ? stones ? racists aint shit.

truth is stranger than fictionandapathy is tronger than warandmy enemies come in all races!

i love all of your posts....but

like obama's fellow elitist colorist andy young said about the slain dark poor atl children,a dead obama would only be "spilled milk" to me

i would NEVER die or kill for a blackish clone of gwb like obama

and

NO ONE killed for all those dead poor black babies killed by the kkk in atlanta

in fact, many BLACK cops helped frame the bm wayne williams as they protected the white kkk

Yet, nothing haunts me like the souls of those dead Black babies slaughtered in the so-called “Atlanta Child Murders”. No one has ever been officially charged with the murders of these poor, dark skinned black babies that Andrew Young referred to as “spilled milk”. I am compelled to cry over their unavenged and restless souls. I hear their screams daily. I will never forget their deaths or their dismissal by Atlanta’s officials.

Our dead babies were “written off” in the most profound sense of those words. There is not a single monument of memorial to their massacres. An offense intensified by the Olympic construction whch rages on. Frantic, sloppy, last minute monuments to brief visitors who will never live or die in Atlanta as our babies did.

i will never die or kill for the sorry fake politico like the blackish obama/gwb 2.0!:

On the one hand, I still love the Brother--I support him when he's right. I want to make sure he's protected from some of these right-wing folk or sick White brothers and sisters who're almost trying to kill him. And that's very important.

On the other hand, I'm profoundly disappointed. When I look at his economic team, I see he's been seduced by Wall Street--bringing in [Larry] Summers and Timothy [Geithner]. These folk are the same deregulators that got us in trouble, and [he] thinks, somehow, they've changed their mind? But, for them, poor folk have always been an afterthought. They've never been concerned about working people.

[With] the bailout, they gave $750 billion to Wall Street, but not a penny to poor people? As though that's how you bring recovery. He [President Obama] just has the wrong priority.

I was very disappointed when he brought them in; same is true in foreign policy. You look at Susan Rise and [Richard] Holbrook--these are the same recycled neo-Clintonites that were running things in the '90s. And I'm looking for a Change.

You know, I see him reassuring the establishment, instead of trying to put pressure on it in a way that would make working people and poor people more central.

"I just think it's gonna really put him in a limelight because ... you know, you already sent 21,000 troops. You might send 65,000 troops. That's not a Peace Prize-acting activity. You see what I mean," the activist said. while referencing efforts to address the recent death of Chicago honor student Derrion Albert.

"And so, for me, another thing is that peace is not the absence of conflict. That's what brother Martin used to say. Peace is the presence of justice," West said. "So if you can take a jet to Copenhagen and can't meet with sister Albert in Chicago to deal with peace in the hood, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good at all."

Alicia Banks I am not an obama fan,i prefer to have my black leaders to have slave blood in thier viens & no boule connections,baraks cares & concerns have nothing to offer the victims of slavery living in a society & world controlled by white supremacy His election only proves the gullability of people who hope instead of do what we all know needs to be done.thier president of these united snakes has been put in place by people whom use words like black mail black mass black sunday black ball It's in thier dna they are our biggest challenge to overcome to obtain our true freedom & identity every race in america is complacent in our demise & will pay dearly soon if not them thier children arabs,jews asians have all sold out for a slice of the flatbutts pie guess whos coming to dinner,serve tea, then murder!

We can stop the murder of Black men in Philadelphia by a simple gimmick.

Let's develop a line of urban clothing that has BARACK OBAMA'S FACE printed all over it.

The Pirates who are shooting our Black people would not DARE shoot at a picture of Barack Obama. Thus merely the picture of Barack Obama would be better than a bullet proof vest in these districts that voted 99% for Obama as president.

What do you think Filled Negro?

I am wondering if one large picture on the back and another on the chest of the outfit. Or do you think a lot of little Obama faces covering the trunk and arms would do the trick?

Just yesterday a Morehouse student was shot in the ARM so we can't just have the picture of Obama on the chest and back. Pirates do shoot people in the arm.

Morehouse Student Shot During A Robbery. He handed over his laptop and cellphone. When he failed to hand over his iPod - he was shot in the arm.

[quote]The main reason they're harping and focusing on black on black violence is not because they care, because they don't.[/quote]

You know I love you, right Granny?

I love you DESPITE some of the things that you say. (Notice how I show respect for you and not attack you or call you names. I just wanted to though).

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT GRANNY!!!!

DESPITE the fact that right now as I am watching a "Bloody Summer" in Atlanta shift over into a "Bloody Autumn" where the red leaves on the ground will increasingly come from the blood shed from some NEGRO - I should only think about this in terms of REPUBLICANS?????????

Despite the fact that these Black folks who are getting murdered on a daily basis live in SOLIDLY DEMOCRATIC areas in the metro area - I SHOULD BE FOCUSED on the notion that REPUBLICANS DON'T CARE THAT THEY ARE KILLING EACH OTHER and don't care about Negroes?????????

How does one rationally comfort himself with this though? (You see granny if it was not you I would have asked my friend Filled Negro "How did you mentally masturbate yourself into this thought?)

But I have respect for you Granny.YOU are one of the reasons why I keep my video library that I call "What Is Making Black Folks Cry On The News Today?"

It provides a library of FACTS to prevent people like you from spinning and redirecting the painful truth.

"On the other hand, I'm profoundly disappointed. When I look at his economic team, I see he's been seduced by Wall Street--bringing in [Larry] Summers and Timothy [Geithner]. These folk are the same deregulators that got us in trouble, and [he] thinks, somehow, they've changed their mind? But, for them, poor folk have always been an afterthought. They've never been concerned about working people.

[With] the bailout, they gave $750 billion to Wall Street, but not a penny to poor people? As though that's how you bring recovery. He [President Obama] just has the wrong priority.

I was very disappointed when he brought them in; same is true in foreign policy. You look at Susan Rise and [Richard] Holbrook--these are the same recycled neo-Clintonites that were running things in the '90s. And I'm looking for a Change.

You know, I see him reassuring the establishment, instead of trying to put pressure on it in a way that would make working people and poor people more central.

"I just think it's gonna really put him in a limelight because ... you know, you already sent 21,000 troops. You might send 65,000 troops. That's not a Peace Prize-acting activity. You see what I mean," the activist said. while referencing efforts to address the recent death of Chicago honor student Derrion Albert.

"And so, for me, another thing is that peace is not the absence of conflict. That's what brother Martin used to say. Peace is the presence of justice," West said. "So if you can take a jet to Copenhagen and can't meet with sister Albert in Chicago to deal with peace in the hood, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good at all."

alicia banks said... All on point as usual thanks for reading my painful truths full of basic grammar errors,I dont care enough about our slave language enough to make the proper corrections.Big ups to all the trolls here as well,you keep my mental blade wet with your petty attempts at shaking the most abused Humans on the planet! nothing you cavemen come up with is new. I have more respect for devils who can at least say that shit to a mans face before nap time.distructive feed back,Your a malfunctioning weapon & should return to the hive asap!Field, keep banging on this beast great work!

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